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MASSACHUSETTS 



INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 



OFFICERS. 

EXTRACTS FROM ACT OF INCORPORATION. 

OBJECTS AND PLAN. 

BY-LAWS. 



BOSTON: 

PKINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 

5, Water Street. 

1862. 



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MASSACHUSETTS 



INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 



OFFICERS. 



EXTRACTS FROM ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



OBJECTS AND PLAN 



BY-LAWS. 




BOSTON: 

PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 
5, Water Street. 

1862. 



A 



OFFICEES 



OF THE 



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 



For the Year 1862-63. 



|) resident. 
WILLIAM B. ROGERS. 



JOHN A. LOWELL. 
JACOB BIGELOW. 



MAESHALL P. WILDER. 
JOHN CHASE. 



S^etretarg. 

THOMAS H. WEBB. 

feasitrer. 

CHARLES H. D A L T O N. 



Committee on Instruction. 

WILLIAM B. ROGERS. 
J. D. PHILBRICK. 
HENRY B. ROGERS. 
G. W. TUXBURY. 
JOHN A. LOWELL. 
A. A. HAYES. 
J. B. ERANCIS. 



Committee on iPusenm. 

ERASTUS B. BIGELOW. 
ERED. W. LINCOLN, Jr. 
JONATHAN PRESTON. 
S. P. RUGGLES. 
RALPH HUNTINGTON. 
ALEXANDER H. RICE. 
R. C. GREENLEAE. 



Committee on publication. 

J. D. RUNKLE. 
LORENZO SABINE. 
C. L. FLINT. 
GEORGE B. EMERSON. 
J. C HOADLEY. 



Commiteee on finance. 

M. D. ROSS. 
EDWARD ATKINSON. 
JAMES M. BEEBE. 
E. S. TOBEY. 
E. H. ELDRIDGE. 



EXTRACTS 



FROM 



THE ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



Section 1. — William B. Rogers, James M. Beebe, E. S. 
Tobey, S. H. Gookin, E. B. Bigelow, M. D. Ross, J. D. Phil- 
brick, F. H. Storer, J. D. Runkle, C. H. Dalton, J. B. Francis, 
J. C. Hoadley, M. P. Wilder, C. L. Flint, Thomas Rice, John 
Chase, J. P. Robinson, F. W. Lincoln, Jr., Thomas Aspin- 
wall, J. A. Dupee, E. C. Cabot, their associates and succes- 
sors, are hereby made a body corporate, by the name of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the purpose 
of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of 
arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, 
by suitable means, the advancement, development, and prac- 
tical application, of science in connection with arts, agriculture, 
manufactures, and commerce ; with all the powers and privi- 
leges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, 
set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes. 

Sect. 2. — Said Corporation, for the purposes aforesaid, 
shall have authority to hold real and personal estate to an 
amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars. 

Sect. 4, in part. — Persons from all parts of the Common- 
wealth shall be alike eligible as members of said Institute, or 
as pupils for its instruction; and its Museum, or Conservatory 
of Arts, at all reasonable times and under reasonable regula- 
tions, shall be open to the public. 

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OBJECTS AND PLAN. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has fru- 
its objects the advancement of the Mechanic Arts, Manu- 
factures, Commerce, and Agriculture, and of the Applied 
Sciences generally, and the promotion of the practical edu- 
cation of the industrial classes. 

It proposes to attain these ends by each and all of the 
following modes of operation : — 

First, By acting as a Society of Arts, whose discussions, 
researches, and publications shall be directed to the advance- 
ment of the Industrial Arts and Sciences, and the diffusion 
of useful facts and discoveries relating to them. 

Second, By organizing a Museum of Technology, or Con- 
servatory of Arts, — embracing the materials, implements, 
machinery, and products of all the practical Arts and 
Sciences. 

Third, By establishing a School of Industrial Science, in 
which regular courses of instruction shall be given, by lec- 
tures and other teachings, in the arts of Drawing and Design, 
and in the various Applied Sciences.* 



* For a full account of the Objects and Plan of the Institute, see the printed 
Eeport of the Committee of Associated Institutions of Science and Arts, read at a 
public meeting held at the rooms of the Board of Trade, Oct. 5, 1860; and ap- 
proved and adopted at the meeting for preliminary organization, in Mercantile Hall, 
Jan. 11, 1861. 



BY-LAWS. 



Sect. I. — Officers. 

1. The Officers of trie Institute shall be a President, four 
Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such Officers 
connected with the School of Industrial Science and the 
Museum of Technology as it may hereafter be found expe- 
dient to appoint. 

Sect. II. — Government. 

1. The general direction, management, and control of the 
Institute shall be vested in a body, to be called the " Govern- 
ment of the Institute," to consist of the President, Vice- 
Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer, and the Chairmen of 
the several Committees of Arts hereinafter mentioned, to- 
gether with the members of the Committees on the Museum, 
on Instruction, on Publication, and on Finance. The Govern- 
ment shall have power to institute from time to time such 
standing rules and orders, not inconsistent with the By-laws, 
for reo'ulatino; the action of the several Committees, the 
choice of subjects for investigation and discussion, and reports 
on the same, as it may deem expedient ; and shall have power 
to fill all vacancies occurring in its own body during the 
current year, except those of Chairmen of the Committees of 
Arts. 



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Sect. III. — Standing Committees. 

1. All the members of the Institute shall be enrolled in 
divisions, under the following heads, according to the taste or 
preference of the individual, each division to constitute a 
Standing Committee upon the subjects to which it apper- 
tains : — 

(1.) On Mineral Materials, Mining, and the Manufacture of 
Iron, Copper, &c. 

(2.) On Organic Materials ; — their Culture and Preparation. 

(3.) On Tools and Instruments. 

(4.) On Machinery and Motive Powers. 

(5.) On Textile Manufactures. 

(6.) On Manufactures of Wood, Leather, Paper, India-rubber, 
Gutta Percha, &c. 

(7.) On Pottery, Glass, Jewelry, and works in the Precious 
Metals. 

(8.) On Chemical Products and Processes. 

(9.) On Household Economy; including Warming, Illumina- 
tion, Water-supply, Ventilation, and the Preparation and Pre- 
servation of Food. 

(10.) On Engineering, Architecture, and Ship-building. 

(11.) On Commerce, Marine Navigation, and Inland Trans- 
portation. 

(12.) On Agriculture and Rural Affairs. 

(13.) On the Graphic and Fine Arts. 

2. A member may belong to more than one of the above- 
named Committees of Arts, but shall not at the same time be 
eligible as Chairman in more than one. 

3. It shall be competent for each Committee of Arts, of ten 
or more members entitled to vote, to organize, and elect a 
Chairman to represent it in the Government, and to frame its 
own By-laws, provided the same do not conflict with the 
regulations of the Institute. 



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4. The following Standing Committees, each to consist of 
not less than three members, shall be appointed at the annual 
meeting : — 

The Committee on Instruction. 
,, ,, on the Museum. 

„ ,, on Publication. 

,, ,, on Finance. 

5. The Committee on Instruction shall have the supervision 
of the School of Industrial Science, both as to its organization 
and its business-affairs ; subject to the direction of the Go- 
vernment. 

6. The Committee on the Museum shall be charged, 
under like direction of the Government, with the internal 
economy, and business-concerns, of the Museum of Techno- 

7. The Committee on Publication shall have the general 
direction of the printing of the proceedings and other publica- 
tions of the Institute, including the selection of papers and 
discussions which have been presented at the meetings. 

8. The Committee on Finance shall have the general 
supervision of the financial affairs of the Institute ; and all 
vouchers of expenditure, before payment by the Treasurer, 
must be approved by the Committee. 

9. An Auditing Committee of three associate members 
shall be chosen annually, whose duty it shall be to examine 
the accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer for the ensuing 
year, and report to the next annual meeting. 

Sect. IV. — Members, and their Election. 

1. Members of the Institute shall be of three kinds, — 
Associate, Corresponding, and Honorary Members. 

2. All those persons who have already united in the pre- 
liminary organization of the Institute, and whose names are 
affixed to the Preamble adopted Jan. 11, 1861, at a meeting 



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held in Mercantile Hall, in Boston, together with all others 
who shall have been enrolled at the time of the adoption of 
these By-laws, shall be considered Associate Members of the 
Institute. 

3. Candidates for Associate Membership must be citizens 
of Massachusetts, and must be proposed and recommended by 
not less than two members, whose signatures shall be affixed 
to a written form to that effect. The nomination, after being 
announced by the President, shall be posted, for the inspection 
of members, until the second regular meeting thereafter, when 
the election shall be conducted by ballot ; three-fourths in the 
affirmative constituting an election. 

4. Corresponding and Honorary Members may be chosen, 
without respect to citizenship, on nomination by the Govern- 
ment. 

5. An Associate Member shall pay an admission-fee of 
two dollars before being entitled to the privileges of member- 
ship, and be subject to an annual assessment not exceeding 
five dollars ; the amount to be determined from time to time 
by the Government. 

6. An Associate Member, by paying the sum of fifty dol- 
lars at any one time, may become a member for life, and be 
thereafter exempted from the annual assessments. 

7. A member neglecting to pay his annual assessment, for 
six months after being notified that the same is due, shall be 
regarded as having withdrawn his membership, unless other- 
wise decided by the Government, who shall be authorized, 
for cause shown, to remit the assessment for any one year. 

Sect. V. — Election of Officers and Committees. 

1. At the Ordinary Meeting next but one preceding the 
Annual Meeting, a Nominating Committee shall be chosen, 
consisting of seven members, — three by the Government 
from its own body, and four by the Institute at large, — whose 
duty it shall be to nominate the President, Vice-Presidents, 



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Treasurer, and the Committees of Instruction, of the Museum, 
of Publication, and of Finance, and the Auditing Committee, 
to serve for the ensuing year. They shall prepare a balloting 
list of the names selected, which, as early as convenient, shall 
be posted in a place accessible to the members, and of which 
printed copies shall be furnished to the members at or before 
the time of election. 

2. Two Tellers, nominated by the President, shall collect 
the ballots, cast up the votes, and report the names and num- 
bers of the votes to the President, who shall thereupon 
announce the same to the meeting. A majority of votes 
shall be necessary to an election. 

3. The Secretary shall be elected annually by the Go- 
vernment. 

Sect. VI. — Duties of Officers. 

1. The President, and, in his absence, one of the Vice- 
Presidents, in the order of their numbers, shall preside at the 
meetings of the Institute and of the Government. 

2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to give notice of, 
and attend, all meetings of the Institute and of the Govern- 
ment ; to keep a record of the business and orders of each 
meeting, and read the same at the next meeting ; to conduct 
the correspondence of the Institute, when not otherwise 
ordered ; to keep a list of the members of the Institute ; to 
collect the assessments and other dues, and pay them over 
to the Treasurer ; to notify officers and members of their elec- 
tion, and of their appointment on committees ; to prepare, 
under the direction of the Government, an Annual Report of 
the transactions and condition of the Institute ; and generally 
to devote his best efforts to forwarding the business and ad- 
vancing the interests of the Institute. 

8. The Treasurer shall keep an account of all moneys 
received and expended for the use of the Institute ; and shall 
make disbursements only upon vouchers, approved by the 



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Committee of Finance. He shall report to the Government 
semi-annually, or oftener if required. 

4. No money shall be expended in behalf of the Corpora- 
tion, unless appropriated by the Government: and all con- 
tracts shall be approved in writing by the President and 
Treasurer. 

Sect. VII. — Meetings. 

1 . The Annual Meeting of the Institute shall be held in the 
month of May of each year, on such day as the Government 
may direct, for the purpose of electing officers ; receiving the 
reports of the Secretary, and others of whom annual reports 
may be required ; and for the transaction of such other busi- 
ness as may be brought before the meeting by the Government. 

2. The Ordinary Meetings shall be held semi-monthly, 
on such days as the Government may determine. At these 
meetings, the reading of the minutes and correspondence 
shall be followed by the presentation of written and oral com- 
munications relating to the Practical Arts and Sciences, and 
by discussion thereon ; and the transaction of the current 
business of the Institute. 

0. The Government shall appoint its own meetings; and 
it may summon a special meeting of the Institute at any time, 
provided three-fourths of the members of the Government 
concur in the expediency of such meeting. 

Sect. VIII. — Amendment and Repeal. 

1. The By-laws may be amended or repealed, and other 
provisions added, by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
present at any regular meeting of the Institute ; provided that 
all changes be recommended by a majority of the Government, 
and presented in writing at the second Ordinary Meeting of 
the Institute preceding that at which they are to be acted 
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